Case reportTransfemoral and Transseptal Valve-in-Valve Implantation Into a Failing Mitral Xenograft With a Balloon-Expandable Biological Valve
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TAVI has become an emerging feasible and effective alternative technique to surgery for treatment of severe aortic valvular stenosis in patients, judged to be poor candidates for surgery. In addition, TAVI as a valve-in-valve implantation for failing biological aortic prosthesis is gaining increasingly acceptance [2, 3]. Until now, mainly transapical implantation of SAPIEN valves into failing mitral xenografts has been reported [4, 5, 6, 7]. The presented case involves a patient with a failing
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